WASHINGTON—Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) stressed Artsakh’s status as a fully functioning state after visiting the nation on Sept. 18, in conjunction with an exchange of U.S. and Armenian Members of […]
Last week, Armenia’s president, Serge Sarkisian, made an important pronouncement. Standing before the United Nations General Assembly, he announced the end of the Turkey-Armenia Protocols. Sarkisian said the so-called Zurich Protocols, which were signed […]
STEPANAKERT, Artsakh (A.W.)—The Information and Public Relations Department of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Artsakh released a short statement on Sept. 27 welcoming the Sept. 25 independence referendum held in Iraqi Kurdistan. “We […]
We left Shushi in Artsakh, passing Tigranakert, the remains of one of Armenian King Tigran II’s regional capitals. King Tigran ruled 95-55 B.C. I would have loved to have revisited the site, but other […]
BOSTON—“The Welcome Reception for New Citizens, Their Families & Friends” at Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway, Boston, was held under sunny skies, during an otherwise rain-soaked week, on Sept. 21. The Anna and […]
TBILISI, Georgia (A.W)—Nearly 12 years after winning the championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, chess Grandmaster Levon Aronian of Armenia clinched his second FIDE (World Chess Federation) World Cup title after winning two tiebreak rapid games against […]
Capacity Crowd Gives Standing Ovation to Powerful Documentary Linking Ankara’s Genocide Denial to Baku’s Ongoing Aggression WASHINGTON—”Architects of Denial,” a powerful documentary film by executive producers Dean Cain and Montel Williams, drew a capacity […]
WASHINGTON—In light of continued human rights abuses by the Azerbaijani regime, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) along with lead Democrat co-Sponsor Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), introduced H. Res. 537 on Sept. 26, which promotes the rule […]
There were plenty of Azeri commentators and officials who criticized Armenian President Serge Sarkisian’s speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly last week, but I did not come across any Armenian commentators or […]
WASHINGTON (A.W.)—Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu recently visited two men charged with the May 16 attack on peaceful demonstrators in Washington and offered them Turkey’s “love and greetings.” Çavuşoğlu tweeted two photos of […]
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